The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... interest of the modern Whigs , and under thei The paragraph is not disclaimed on their part . It professes to cision of those whom its author calls " the great and firm b Whigs of England . " Who are the Whigs of a different c which the ...
... interest of the modern Whigs , and under thei The paragraph is not disclaimed on their part . It professes to cision of those whom its author calls " the great and firm b Whigs of England . " Who are the Whigs of a different c which the ...
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... interest in the proceed- ings of France , begin publicly to incorporate themselves for the subversion of nothing short of the whole constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its ...
... interest in the proceed- ings of France , begin publicly to incorporate themselves for the subversion of nothing short of the whole constitution of this kingdom ; to incorporate themselves for the utter over- throw of the body of its ...
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... interest some time before this debate . A very dark intrigue has lately been discovered , the authors of which are well known to us ; but until the glorious day shall come , when it will not be a LIBEL to tell the TRUTH , we must not be ...
... interest some time before this debate . A very dark intrigue has lately been discovered , the authors of which are well known to us ; but until the glorious day shall come , when it will not be a LIBEL to tell the TRUTH , we must not be ...
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... interest as a member of opposi- tion , to assert the very same doctrines which appear in that book . He told the House , upon an important occasion , and pretty early in his service , that " being warned by the ill effect of a contrary ...
... interest as a member of opposi- tion , to assert the very same doctrines which appear in that book . He told the House , upon an important occasion , and pretty early in his service , that " being warned by the ill effect of a contrary ...
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... interest . ' and breach of original con- tract . Words neces- sary means se- lected with caution . " The necessary means ( which is the phrase used by the Commons in their first article ) are words made choice of by them with the ...
... interest . ' and breach of original con- tract . Words neces- sary means se- lected with caution . " The necessary means ( which is the phrase used by the Commons in their first article ) are words made choice of by them with the ...
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Page 541 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 344 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 157 - ... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Page 158 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...